moving 20 to 30 miles per hour. wind is a major problem with this storm, in excessive 60 miles per hour. and vivid lightning near middletown near the intersection of 301 and straddling route 1, this is aiming straight towards salem and should be in mcdonough at 4:07 and port penn over the river there coming in at 4:15 and delaware city 4:18, 187 lightning strikes in the last 15 minutes. any thunderstorms along 55 near woods town and elmer and bridgeton along with bay side. this is the beginning of a potent system down to the south and west. a severe thunderstorm watch until 9:00, a cluster of storms near baltimore and washington. can you see all of this lightning, over 1,000 strikes in

15 minutes, heading to dover and southern new jersey and delaware. this continues to pivot along i-95 and clips philadelphia. a severe thunderstorm in affect until 9:00, damaging binds and isolated large hail is a threat. speaking of the downpours, meteorologist, cecily tynan this is a truly tropical system we are dealing with. >> this is water vapor imagery and this green you see here is the moisture literally being pulled up from the gulf of mexico. bringing us oppressive humidity here not only here but quebec and parts of maine dealing with a high humidity and then west of this cold front, this yellow, that is the very dry air that is moving in and taking over tomorrow. tonight we have the classic clash of air masses, a flash flood watch is posted until 6:00 tomorrow morning, across our entire viewing area, is there is

so much moisture in the air, any storm could bring 2 inch ofs rain in less than an hour. we have flash flood warnings for northern ocean county this evening or this afternoon i could say, we are already seeing the flash flooding, future tracker shows similar to yesterday, right along the i-95 corridor, 1 to 2 inches in a short period of time brings the possibility of flash flooding. i want to show you a picture from twitter to the national weather service. it looks like a tornado but it's a funnel cloud, unless it touches the ground it's not a tornado and a survey team with the national weather service looked at the damage and proclaimed it was not a tornado that caused all the damage. a down draft from the storm, a tremendous thunderstorm can pull down the strong winds, 60 to 70 miles per hour and winds like that can cause just as much

damage as even a small tornds and unfortunately we are looking at more potential wind damage tonight. and we have more on the storms ton and changes on the way in the full accuweather forecast. >> thank you cecily. a few streets in a voorhees neighborhood were among the hardest hit. walter per says live in the neighborhood where the cleanup is underway now. >> reporter: as you mentioned the concentration of the storm cell that hit this neighborhood was amazing, this house absolutely nothing and right next door downed trees and toppled power line, a whole lot of crews are working to clean up this mess. officials have confirmed, that the culprit was strain line winds. >> lisa says the huge old trees in her backyard added real character to her frort and

overnight the old trees were toppled. this guy was probably 45 feet tall non-3 seconds all of my trees are gone. >> some maybes say they are certain it was a tornado that touched down here but the officials on the scene say, while the storm had the power of a small tornado but had the hallmarks of straight line winds, general winds of 70 to 80 miles per hour, that is equal to an ef 0 tornado and the panel is wider than what we see for a tornado. while the swath of heavy damage in voor hes -- a gaping hole tore a hole through his bedroom and all of his backyard furniture is either destroyed or missing. >> it's gone, the swing set is

broken and missing, and the padding on the swing set, how does that happen? >> everything can be replaced but life can't. so that is what i'm really happy about. >> back out live, this evening, the people here whose homes endured roof damage are tarping the roofs as quickly as possible in anticipation of mother nature's one-two punch and the hopes that tonight's storm is considerably gentler. back to you guys. >> thank you walter, as we mentioned the national weather service says the tornado did not touch down in tabernacle, burlington county, investigator says it was straight line winds and trees were ripped out of ground and landed on both homes and cars, it brought down this large oak tree in front of

gloria's home in gloucester county. she lives on the 100 block of park avenue, her cousin, juan eat awas visiting and letter car was crushed by the tree and the roof of the home was also damaged. >> our storm coverage continues on the 6 abc news app, we have the updates on the cleanup and photos of the damage left behind and be sure to check storm checker 6 when more storms come through the area. we have breaking news in the case a woman murdered and stuff nood a duffle bag in kensington. she is laura arojo, she was strangled and beaten led morning, all of her personal belongings were found near her body, she was a recent graduate of the art festival of philadelphia.

a news conference wrapped up a short time ago on this case and sara bloomquist will be along at 5:30 with more details. the fbi and other law enforcement agencies are looking for a body said to be a part of a cold case investigation on the 300 block of eerie street. several tents were set up over the area that they were searching. david henry is here with the latest. what more have you learn about this >> reporter: the fbi is involved in the active investigation, along with the county prosecutors office, they are looking into a cold case murder investigation and they descends on this neighborhood at 6:00 this morning startling the neighbors. >> someone said open the door, open the door and i said what? i look and saw the fbi. >> dozens of fbi agents, police and county detectives took over the 300 block of eerie street

without warning, with heavy equipment and a backhoe and a dump truck and jack hammers. they went to work in the basement of this house. this was lived in the house and was free to go after the police left, she had no comment. investigators are not saying what or anything that they found. >> i woke up and heard the racket and i saw tents and a bulldozer, i thought they were doing construction and then i see crime scene tape and fbi shirts. the first thing that came to my mind was drugs. >> this was a scene of drug activity until a crack down last december, in what they called operation north pole, police say they were tied to mexican drug cartels, and it was centered at york two blocks from here and one ring leader has a connection to the people that live in the

house that was raided today. officials are not commenting and many neighbors are not surprised. >> it's shocking and not. i have been around north camden and i hear of a lot of deaths and a hear a lot of gunshots that, would not surprise me. >> this is apparently a cold case that got red shot today, and camden has a homicide clearance rate of 35% far below the national average, david henry, channel 6 "action news." >> david thank you. and next here on "action news" at 4:00, identity theft is on the rise, official says that your personal information is at an increased risk. what officials are saying about the possibility it was terrorism. those stories and much more plus another check of the storm filled accuweather forecast.

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investigators in russia have now ruled out terrorism in a subway derailment today that claimed 21 lives, the accident happened in moscow's deepest subway some 270 feet underground and they blamed a power surge for the sudden stop and now are looking at other causes such as sinking of the tracks, the accident sent 126 people to the hospital and prompted a vacs yag of more than 1,000. in the middle east, hopes of a cease fear has given way to more violence. ham as rejected a truce geemt and israel stopped its air campaign for six hours after accepting a proposal by egypt to end the fighting but hamas continued to fire rockets into israel and now israel's prime

minister says they will responsible with even greater force. here at the big board, a new study with concerns for just about everyone when it comes to identity theft. your personal data is at the greatest risk yet. and it's attack demmic levels. the number of hacking cases in new york state alone are up 100% and retailers and consumers are the most frequent victims with data breaches costing the u.s. $25 billion that, was just in 2012, expert says that hackers are hitting bigger targets with five of the ten largest hacks in history happening over the past three years. there is no question that the problem is getting bigger and it is expanding and it's a major problem that will only increase in complexity and expense. >> the big question is how do you protect yourself.

experts say protecting yourself against skilled cyber criminals not easy but some are common sense and remind you to check your credit and debit accounts often to make sure there isn't charges you didn't authorize and change your passwords frequently, and never post personal information on social media pages, we have these tips and more on our website at 6abc.com. checking in today with the closing numbers, the dow jones finished up 6 points to close at 17,062 and the nasdaq and s&p ended the day on a down note. home depot is taking a major step into the 3-d market. it began selling market bottom printers in a dozen of its stores. the printers are being used to make 3-d plastic objects. they are demonstrating how they

work and printing small keep sake for customers, the machines are pricey from $800 to $2800. it's time now for the "action news" traffic report. lets go to matt pellman, the rain is coming so traffic trouble is not far behind. >> right now we have a few issues even though the roads are dry, like this broken down truck in delco in the southbound lanes of 95 by the split for the blue route, 476, the right lane is blocked and the police and penndot are trying to assist and with the left lane getting by it's extra slow from past philadelphia international airport to 476, otherwise on 95, it's the normal northbound delays from the city heading towards the work zone on the cotman avenue and speeds of 15 miles per hour on the schuylkill

expressway near city avenue. and watch for a water main break by the park mall along 63 more snfrmt land road, the lane is blocked for most of the evening and a pair of crashes along county line road at pine road and madison avenue and a crash at national penn bank at high street and springfield, burlington county, a crash is closing 206 at monmouth road, lets grab the ipad and do the commuter report, the rain is coming through, an object on the road, the waze app southbound near odessa. we'll check it again in the next half hour. >> septa police say they were able to make a significant arrest thanks to quick thinking passengers, monica malpass is in the newsroom with this story. >> that is right shirleen, one passenger on the broad street

line is facing charges after they bought weapons on the train, riders are credited for taking him into custody. the suspect was carrying four b.b. guns that looked real and three butcher knives, coming up at 5:00 we'll hear from the riders that spotted something wrong and then helped police make the arrest plus, another local hospital will no longer hire smokers, ali gorman has details on "action news" at 5:00. those stories and more in a little bit. >> all right monica, thank you. more "action news" at 4:00

adam joseph is at the big board tracking the storm. we are tracking severe storms in parts of kent county delaware, double scan live shows a cluster of torrential and drenching and

gusty thunderstorms. anywhere from salem county into parts of western cumberland county and the northern part of kent county and a good chunk of newcastle county until 4:45 p.m., this whole area of orange from salem to bridgeton and cedarville, extremely strong winds and hail and torrential rain and individual lightning, a cluster of storms pull together, from newark to middletown and elmer, and glassboro. south-southwest of berlin, 121 lightning strikes in the last 15 minutes. we switch double scan, any where you see purple, west of elmer, the size of a quarter, glassboro, pea size hail trying to develop with that storm but we are dealing with a nasty cell

east of middletown and this is an inch and a half diameter size hail. at least 115 lightning strikes in the last 15 minutes and it's heading over the bay into new jersey, new jersey you have been dealing with the thunderstorm but the worst part of it is about to bump over the river here and head into that particular county. the other area wrez dealing with rain and downpours, a cluster of trenton and florence and bristol, not severe but as it heads up the split this has to be watched in the next 30 minutes. down in the south we have dew point s in the mid touper 70s, extremely oppressive and moisture loaded. that is where we see the storms now to the south, and lower dew points to the north and west and in pennsylvania it's quiet here

in the 4:00 hour. >> 92 is what it feels like in philadelphia, the same for dover and upper 80s in the lehigh valley and severe thunderstorm watch until 9:00 tonight, a good chunk of cluster of storms in richmond and baltimore heading into southern new jersey and delaware, a cold front to the west, that will interact with all of this moisture, early this evening at 6:00, in southeastern parts of pennsylvania, seeing downpours and thunderstorms erupt. that continues until 8:00 tonight and that pushes away and we catch a break, at midnight or thereafter, the cold front arrives from the west and that pushes through at 8:00 and the rain starts to exit new jersey and the sun is returning to the western suburbs of pennsylvania. 1 to 2 inches of rain in a short amounts of time and winds gusting to 60 miles per hour. and dangerous lightning and also some of that hail.

the four day at 4:00, showers tomorrow giving way to quick sunshine and dropping humidity and a beautiful afternoon of 83, a great day on thursday, low humidity of 83, and friday still a decent day, 85 and low humidity, partly sunny and humid and 84, a thunderstorm popping in the afternoon, we'll have the seven day in the next half hour. we are getting through today and we'll be buzzing next. >> bringing in alicia here. >> is it a weird case of photo shopping. weird al is back a sn [ gecko ] what a lovely night in philadelphia.

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hello again, an accuweather alert, for the second time the delaware valley is under the gun when it comes to storms. lets get to adam joseph, for the latest on the watches and warnings that are coming our way. >> new warnings have popped up in the last 10 seconds here. live double scan shows the activity right now, as we head to the south of wilmington and smyrna and dover over to bridgeton and new jersey and cedarville and salem, all of these areas under severe thunderstorm warning it

continues until 5:15, wind is a problem and small hail and now also flooding rains in this area, this cluster drifted to woodbury and salem and elmer. if you put a mark here it's moving over 49, route 40 to 55 and south of new jersey turnp e turnpike. it won't end soon as it continues to drift. double scan up towards langhorne and florence, north of bristol, this is also a severe storm, with 15 lightning strikes in the last 15 minutes. a severe thunderstorm warning as it slowly drifts to the north at 20 miles per hour. winds over 60 miles per hour and

hail being reported with this particular storm, and that particular warning extends north to princeton, as far north as bensalem, it drifts to northern mercer county and that particular storm is a small storm but definitely a potent storm that we are following, now just north of bristol. as we take a wider look at double scan live, a severe storm tonight, the big of the concentration right now south of boston and richmond and baltimore pushes over new jersey, at this time. little going on in pennsylvania, there is a front to the west, we are watching to inter aktd with philadelphia. we are not out of woods this evening, a flash flood warning is in affect for the entire area where we can see the high rainfall rates in a short amount of time. the warning in new jersey and

one in the northern parts of ocean county. we'll look for new warnings and at double scan to see where the storms are tracking in the full accuweather forecast. utility workers in delaware worked to get everyone back online before today's storms roll in. the crews worked to remove a large tree in newcastle county, it knocked out service to two dozen homes and blocked thompson bridge road from brandywine creek to wood lawn road. a frightening night for a teenager in burlington county, that boy was reportedly struck by lightning and is recovering at crozier medical center, john rawlins has more now. >> the young man is identified by his brother as david botkin. he is in fair condition. during last night's violence

thunderstorms, 14-year-old david was getting in a car here in glenolden, when a lightning strike hit with such force the lightning went through his body and caused a wound in david's arm. >> i thought he was going to die at first honestly, i'm glad he is at the hospital, but i am glad he is going to make it. it's crazy. >> the hope it been that david would be discharged at noon time and would come home here to where he lives sometime this afternoon. there has been a delay and no new eta is set, in prospect park, john rawlins, channel 6 "action news." >> of course our continuing storm coverage continues on the 6 abc news app, we have the latest updates, and photographs of all the damage left behind, be sure to check in with storm tracker 6 when storms move in tonight. >> now to a developing and disturbing story of the murder

of a young woman. laura arojo was beaten and strangled to death and the recent graduate was stuffed into a duffle bag and discarded like trash into a kensington lot. the questions remain, who would do this and why. "action news" reporter, sara bloomquist is live now with more on this murder mystery. >> reporter: well, shirleen we learned new details about the murder of laura arojo, police believe her killer took steps to cover up the crime. she had just graduated from the art institute of philadelphia in december according to police, yesterday after 5:30 a.m., a man looking through trash found the fashion design major's body in the vacant lot of 2200 block of north kensington. today the medical examiner

determined she was murdered, badly beaten and strangled to death. >> her hands and feet were bound and she was put in a trash bag and folded into a blanket and stuffed into a duffle bag. >> everything she owned was found in bag as long side her body, police say she was living with two female friends at eighth and diamond and was actively looking for a new place to stay. two hours before her body was found her toyota rav 4 was found in south philadelphia and it was intensely set on fire, police believe her killer was trying to cover up evidence. >> she was a nice young lady and had a good future. >> people were stunned by the butteality of the crime. >> it's unfortunate, someone to come from the same schools that we come from, that is sad, my

heart and prayers go out to her family. >> reporter: now, her parents have just arrived here at police headquarters, moments ago, they told us show was born in the dominican republic and grew up in new york city. >> very selective about the type of friends and people she related to most of the time, most of the time most of her friends were related to church and people that she trusted well. >> now, police have many, many questions, they don't know where she had been currently living or if she had a boyfriend. anything about her daily routine, they want to hear from anyone that was close to her. live at police headquarters, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. a man who is wanted in a hit and run in delaware county, has surrendered to authorities. only "action news" was there as conroy williams turned himself

in at collingdale courthouse this afternoon. williams was charged with attempted murder, assault and other charges in a hit and run accident in march, police say she deliberately struck his ex-girlfriend's boyfriend. and now he needs physical thermal. a delaware man can blame his sweet tooth for landing him behind bars, richard wells twig triggered an alarm last night. they found him leaving the parking lot with the resident's electronics, the thing that gach him away they spotted an unmelted drum stick in the console of his car, along with their stuff an ice-cream can cone was missing from the treezer. an arena in berks county is making safety changes during a demolition derby, this was

posted to a woman in the sands, a driver careen out of control is rab over his own father and now he has a broken ankle and several other people suffered scrapes and bruises and they were hit by a run away car. the owner of the arena plans to close off an opening at the arena, and prevent parents from the demo pit. >> now parents have a mystery on their hands, this is the goody mess discovered on the side of the road in plainfield township, whatever it is seems to have eaten through the bucket that once contained it. they ordered an evacuation to figure out what in the world this had to be and if dumped here someone has to pay. >> there is a waterway there and they don't realize what this could effect. >> by testing this material, they believe it might lead them

to the person that left it there. the word of the blob had imagineflations running wild and there is nothing other wordily or science fiction about this one. >> they are talented with a pen and paper. and today they are in philadelphia, to share our talent with us. >> this clock maker, mayor nutter hosted the kick off, for the poetry fair. people from across the country will perform at this event. and still ahead, there is a pattern when it comes to coupon codes. and from visitor to prisoner, how a chicago man that when to see his son in jail wound up trapped behind bars for 30 hours, and a big talker all about self expression and

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police in california say strangers banned together to save a mother and child from an alleged carjacker, police say that the suspect jumped into the woman's minivan and tried to drive off and instead hit a pole that is when they sprang into action and pulled the man out and restrained him until the police arrived. the family was not hurt. just when you think airline travel could not get more cramped. airbus is looking to see more passengers on the plane. it's part bicycle seat and part

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department came and spotted him and he is suing the county and they call it a unique and unfortunate set of circumstances. >> you know kids love to play dress up. one young boy prefers wearing pretty, frilly things, one father wrote a blog saying my son wears dresses and that is okay with me. 4-year-old asher puts up a fight to wear his older sister's dresses. saying whether it's a stage or not, he writes in this blog, i don't want him to feel he can't express himself, because his parents didn't support him. here is dad showing his solidarity, wearing one of his wife's dresses and she laughed and said do not rip this dress and they all went out for pizza. every time he tries to put shorts or pants on -- he puts up

a fight. lets get another check of the roads right now, pallet pellman is in the "action news" center with an update. >> we are fighting adverse conditions, as we drive home here in buck county, the rain is coming down and getting drenched here along route 1 at stoney hill road, it's not looking super, these are the southbound cars heading towards oxford valley, waiting out some of the heaviest of rain, it's still coming down here along route 1 in buck county, the traffic is getting by but look for the big puddles forming and ponding on the roadway, here along route 1. you know along the willow park mall blocking a lane and still a pair of crash as long montgomery county along pine road and madison avenue. a crash at 322 at 82 manor road

and one in middletown township at elwin road and this broken down truck on 95 southbound in delco, here is what it looks like with the split on the blue rutd, the southbound traffic is moving at a snail's pace coming down from the airport at least the road here is dry, a different scene in delco, the cynwyd line is shuttle busing to the overbrook stage and then can you board the paoli thorndale trains from center city. we'll watch the heavy rains in the next half hour. >> we are watching it. >> we step outside and show you sky 6 hd over philadelphia international airport this weather is no doubt going to have an impact on inbound and outbound flights. adam joseph is tracking it for us and

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now abdam joseph is watchin warnings and watches. >> light showers in lancaster and chester county and delaware county in southeastern pennsylvania, but we are rocking and rolling in southern new jersey and southern parts of delaware, in fact severe thunderstorm warnings continue for buck county and pretty much all of mercer county and trenton and newcastle county, is being taken out of the thunderstorm warning, it continues for northern parts of kent county and north and northwestern parts of cumberland county west of millville. we are dealing with this severe storm near the split of 21 when you head north and west of downtown trenton towards pennington along 206, some very torrential rain, 48 lightning strikes in the last 15 minutes with strong winds, we have this cluster of storms that are not

really severe in this area of new jersey but still flooding rains along 55 and 322, the new jersey turnpike south of woods bury and woods town, a lot of frequent lightning, 98 lightning strikes in the last 15 minutes, heading away from chestertown and merrydale and smyrna route 1, and lifts to the north knowledge east at 25 miles per hour, 226 lightning strikes with this, very strong damaging winds, as this head as way in eastern maryland into the state of delaware. just got this picture in from liza in glassboro, this tree coming down in her backyard with some of those strong winds with storms in southern new jersey, i said to her, is this tree dead? and she said yes thankfully mother nature ripped the roots out and didn't damage anything. good news for the backyard and

liza in glassboro, until 8:30 p.m. it encompasses cumberland county and mullica hill and franklinville and deerfield where close to 4 inches of rain has already fallen in that location, we have the pipeline of moisture coming up the i-95 corridor and a large low, a cold low for this time of year over the great lakes, extending this cold front that will sweep everything out of here first thing tomorrow morning. until then the threat of the severe storms continues until 7:30 tomorrow night and it lights up across the board in southeastern pennsylvania where it's rather quiet here this afternoon. 9:30, raining heavily in new jersey and delaware and early tomorrow morning, at 8:00 rain starts to exit new jersey and can you see the front and the clearing line arriving from the west. drying out here tomorrow with the morning and showers and

thunderstorms effort of philadelphia, not only returning sunshine but dropping humidity in the afternoon of 83 degrees. at the shore tomorrow, it starts rocky in the morning, late sun arriving around 81 at 3:00, and the water temperature, of 63 degrees, the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, tomorrow it's 83 and we go from showers to sunshine and dropping humidity a beautiful afternoon and we extend that into thursday, a spectacular day of 83, still low humid on friday, with sun and clouds of 85 and the human comes back up scan sunday but warm and muggy monday and tuesday of 87 but really no real heat or humidity or oppressiveness, everything wipes out of here first thing tomorrow morning guys. >> saving, the science of coupon

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around labor day weekend. the best months to find coupons, for the past two years active coupons reached their highest levels at the end of august and the end of october. here is how to get a discount for those that don't give coupons, sign up with the retailers for a one-time use code and some offer promotions via social media only. and call the store and ask them if they have coupons available, i have had some luck doing that. nydia han, channel 6 "action news." >> for shirleen allicot, alicia vitarelli, and adam joseph i'm brian taff. we are back tonight and every night for "action news" at 10:00 on phl 17. here are rick williams and monica malpass with a look at what is ahead at 5:00. >> hi there. coming up next at 5:00, how septa passengers helped police arrest a man that was allegedly carrying these weapons.

>> also, we'll tell but the latest local hospital that will not hire smokers. >> the national weather service says it wasn't a tornado but it still did a lot of damage, i'm nora muchanic in burlington county with a look at the cleanup. those stories and

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with jaime apody, meteorologist, cecily tynan, rick williams and monica malpass. here we go again, another d round of severe weather sweeping the delaware and lehigh valleys, lets look at stormtracker 6 live double scan. we have rain and storms and the threat of flooding. we know we'll be dealing with the storm well into the morning. sky 6 hd looking over philadelphia international airport and travelers should expect arrival delays up to 1:32. "action news" has team coverage, lets begin with meteorologist, cecily tynan. >> stormtracker 6 live double scan really lighting up especially across south jersey and delaware, we have one cell though that has popped up near

trenton and some of these cells are severe, that mean they have the potential of wind gusts of 60 miles per hour, and that can cause damage, and the potential for hail as well as vivid lightning, trenton the area in mercer county, we have severe thunderstorm warnings in affect across south jersey and delaware, this is really the focus of most of the activity, that is where we get that training. this is the cell right now near trenton, you can see it's crossing i-95, route 31 and 206, and 14 lightning strikes in the past 15 minutes and it's moving to the north at 25 miles per hour. that is moving out of our viewing area. this is south jersey though, 94 lightning strikes right here between woodsbury, woodstown and berlin. can you see how these storms are aligned from the southwest to the northeast, and they are moving in that direction, when